April 14, 2011 a workshop on the most recent, emerging cyberthreats and countermeasures, as well as the potential to build coordinated research capacities for the long term resilience of critical cyberinfrastructures was organized at the Embassy of Hungary. 

As the last decade and especially the events of last year have shown, the threats emerging from cyberspace have reached unprecedented levels, and they will only continue to multiply.  Criminals and irresponsible hackers probe US Government computer networks millions of times every day; about 9 million Americans have their identities stolen each year; and cyber crime costs large US enterprises $ 3.8 million a year.  More than $1 trillion worth of assets and intellectual property has already been stolen from American businesses, while the annual cost of cybercrime amounts to another $1 trillion worldwide.

Just before the workshop on 12th and 13th of April 2011 the Hungarian Presidency hosted a Cybercrime Conference in Budapest which was attended by representatives of the EU Member States, the European Commission, Europol and experts from the US as well as non governmental and private sector participants. On the basis of the discussion and presentations the Hungarian Presidency has drafted the so called: "Budapest conclusions".

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and the "EU-US Working Group on Cybersecurity" - Concept paper

Since threats, and the critical infrastructures criminals and state actors target, have become global and increasingly sophisticated, the need to come up with effective protection is also a shared responsibility by the democratic community of nations.  The workshop aimed to focus on how cybersecurity research may be harmonized or even prioritized between the US and the EU. See the results below:

Welcome and opening remarks by Ambassador György SZAPÁRY and introduction by Baroness Sarah LUDFORD, Vice Chair, Delegation for relations with the United States, European Parliament

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Keynote Address:  Cybersecurity Legislation in the European Parliament

Timothy KIRKHOPE, Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, European Parliament

Keynote Address:  US Legislative efforts on Cybersecurity

Liesyl FRANZ, Vice President for Cybersecurity and Global Public Policy, TechAmerica

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Jody Westby

Kristjan Prikk

Peter Freeman

Jeff Moulton

Liesyl Franz

Joe Weiss

Clay Shields

Jeremy Bergsman

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Ambassador György Szapáry

Baroness Ludford (1)

Baroness Ludford (2)

Timothy Kirkhope

Liesyl Franz

Panel 1

Panel 2

Panel Discussion: Most Urgent and Emerging Cyberthreats to Critical Infrastructure

Jody WESTBY, adjunct distinguished fellow at Carnegie Mellon University’s Cyber Lab and CEO of Global Cyber Risk

Carlos KIZZEE, Director, Strategic Initiatives, Critical Infrastructure Cyber Protection & Awareness, National Cyber Security Division, Cybersecurity and Communications
National Protection and Programs Directorate, DHS

Kristjan PRIKK, defense counselor, Embassy of Estonia

Joe WEISS, researcher, Applied Control Solutions

Moderator: Lynn VAN FLEIT, Founder and Executive Director, Diplomacy Matters Institute

Panel Discussion: Areas of potential cooperation in transatlantic Cybersecurity Research

Beatrice COVASSI, ICT counselor, Digital Europe Agenda

Delegation of the European Union

Clay SHIELDS, Associate Professor and Director of the Georgetown Institute for Information Assurance

Peter FREEMAN, emeritus dean and professor, College of Computing, Georgia Tech

Carl LANDWEHR, director, Trustworthy Computing Program, CISE at National Science Foundation

Jeremy BERGSMAN, Practice Manager, Information Risk Executive Council, Corporate Executive Board

 Moderator: Jeff MOULTON, director, Information Operations and Program Development, Georgia Tech Research Institute